Flower In The Sun
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Flower In The Sun by Sam Andrew, performed by Janis Joplin 1970
Intro - F#m (mute) F#m (mute) F#m (mute) F#m (mute) Bm (ring)
E D7 F#m A7
Oh please don't you think baby that I am wrong to cry, yeah.
E D7
You loved me, too,
F#m A7
So how come you just sit there and laugh
Bm
And laugh and laugh and laugh ?
Bm C#m
Things just can't be this way
F#m
And not for very long
F#m D
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
E F#m Bm
Our love affair said it's just history, yes it is.
E D7 F#m A7
And I tried to love you in my own way, I think that you know I did.
E D7
But to have you here,
F#m A7 Bm
to see you living, oh so near to me, yeah, yeah, yeah.
C#m
Oh but you are distant and so it's dead
F#m D
And so often people are glad to be old, yeah yeah,
E F#m G Ab
Our love affair is just history, yes it is.
A G Ab A
Once in a green time a flower
A G Ab A
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
A G Ab A
The passion lasted for an hour
F#m Bm
And then she wilted from her loved one.
-- break -- rhthym plays Part A Chords (first eight-second verse and lead into Part B with G slide up to A)
E D7 F#m A7 E D7
F#m A7 Bm C#m F#m D
E F#m G Ab
-- end break --
A G Ab A
Once in a green time a flower
A G Ab A
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
A G Ab A
The passion lasted for an hour
F#m Bm
And then she wilted from her loved one.
E D7 F#m A7
And I see you looking up at the sky, how high it is, yeah.
E D7
You wonder if there is, whoa another me
F#m A7
Now how can that be, how can it be ?
Bm C#m F#m
Well, I sit here and I ask you, why all this ?
F#m D
I just got toni-ni-ni-night
E F#m
Our love affair said it's just a history
D
But baby, baby, I said it's over, Charlie,
E F#m
I can't stand another lo-lo-lonely,
A7
I'm never too lonely.
D
It's over baby,
E F#m
Where were you when I wanted ya
A7
And needed ya right by my side ?
D E F#m A7
I said-a, baby, baby, don't you feel me moving,
D E F#m A7
Baby, don't you hear me cry ?
D E F#m A7
I know I hurt you, but Lord don't you know I cried,
D E F#m A7
I know I hurt you, but babe don't you know I tried,
D E F#m G Ab A
How to play Flower In The Sun
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